Rosehips
One of my early childhood memories is of enjoying a bowl of rosehip soup at my grandmother’s house in Sweden.  It tasted so delicious. I also enjoy a spoonful of rosehip syrup which is rich in vitamin C to help keep colds at bay. The syrup can also be drizzled over fruit, ice cream or yoghurt. Here in England there are plenty of rosehips around, although now that there has been a frost they should taste sweeter (if you are a vegetable grower you’ll know the same is true of parsnips) and you&#

How To Make Delectable Bath Bombs
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Cinnamon
If you’re anything like me, you may have bought some cinnamon sticks or cinnamon powder thinking that they would come in useful one day or you may have needed some for that one recipe that you never repeated. The problem now is that there are still plenty left over and that expiry date is fast approaching. If that is the case, I hope this post will give you some ideas for using your cinnamon in some creative ways.

Fizzy Bath Bombs
Having not been very successful in bath bomb making using recipes from various websites, I finally got round to using a starter pack which I’d bought from Aromantic a little while ago.  My 12 year old daughter helped too, we made a lot of mess using the round and heart moulds but it was great fun. She chose lime and mandarin for the essential oils and they smell really lovely. Here’s a few photos of the results and attempts at making them look nice (practicing for gift ideas!).

Do You Want To Meet James Wong?
If yes, you’ll need to get your skates on because booking of the event where you can meet James Wong closes tomorrow - 12th September. The Herb Society’s AGM and Conference is being held on 26th to 27th September in Stratford-upon-Avon. The speakers will be James Wong, ethnobotanist and presenter of the BBC’s Grow Your Own Drugs, and Anna Parkinson, BBC journalist and author of Nature’s Alchemist: John Parkinson, Herbalist to Charles I, a book about her ancestor who was born two years earlier than Stratford’s most famous son, Willia